SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of experience as Storage Engineer and hands on experience in areas of Red Hat Linux, VMware, Windows in Production Support environment
• Experienced with EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K,20K,40K, DMX 3,4, Clariion CX series, VNX 5400,5700,5800, RecoverPoint Appliance, Celerra and VPLEX
• Experience in implementing, administering and maintaining NetApp FAS 6080/6040, FAS 3270/3170/3070 , FAS3240/3140,FAS 2040/2020,FAS 270 and Hitachi USP V
• Experience with SAN Connectivity of Cisco MDS 9513/09/06, 9216, McDATA ED140M, ED64M, ED 32M and Brocade 5300, 48000/3200
• Expertise in working with Solution Enabler SYMCLI, NAVICLI, Unisphere for VMAX, Unisphere for VPLEX, Celera Manager, Navisphere Manager, ECC, SMC, NetApp CLI, Ontap Manager, Cisco CLI, Device Manager, Hitachi Command Suite, OneFS web administration and OneFS CLI, Fabric Manager, Brocade CLI and webTools
• Experienced with different local and replication software suites such TimeFinder, Snapview, SRDF, Mirrorview, Snapmirror, SnapVault, Volume Sync mirror and RecoverPoint CDP, CRR and CLR
• Expertise in implementing business continuity solutions using various migration and replication tools like SnapView Snapshot/Clone, SAN Copy, Snapmirror and Snapvault, PPME, Open Replicator and VPLEX data mobility migration
• Expertise in installation, administration, patches, upgrades, Configuration, performance tuning and troubleshooting of RedHatLinux4.x/5.x/6.x, Centos 5.x/6.x, Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 environments and VMware Virtualization Esx/Esxi 4.0, 5.x.
• Experience in virtualizing RHEL and Windows environments withVMwareESX 3.5, 4.0 and ESXi 5.0/5.1 on Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant and Cisco UCS Hardware.
• Worked with HP DL and Dell Power Edge Model rack, HP blade centers like HP C6000 & C7000 and Cisco UCS.
• Installed and Configured RedHat Linux Kick start and booting from SAN and managing multipathing at boot level and OS level using EMC Powerpath.
• LUNcreation and storage mapping along with Multipathing and VAAI.
• Experience setting Multipathing with EMC Powerpath onLinuxand Solaris servers.
• Hands on experience with UNIX file editors like vi and vim.
• Experience and Strong Knowledge of Virtualization technologies like VMware ESX/ESXi.
• Worked in the area of Virtualization with VMware vSphere, ESX 4.0 servers, ESXi4.1, 5.0, 5.1, vCenter server 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and vCenter Converter, VMware Update Manager, VCloud director,
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• A good team player with strong communication skills and an inquisitive mind to learn more.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux(RedHat, Centos), Windows

Virtualization: VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware Infrastructure 3, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 (ESX/ESXi server & Virtual Center), VMware vCenter Converter, VMware SRM Hardware HP Proliant DL 350, 550 G3, G4, G5 & G6, HP Blade C6000 & C7000, Dell Power Edge, Cisco UCS.

Programming Languages: KSH and Perl programming.

File Editors: UNIX Vi and VIM.

Networks: NIS, NFS & DNS and Firewalls.

Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SSH, SFTP, LDAP, SSL, SCP, SS, DHCP, iSCSI, FC, NFS&CIFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Sr. Storage Admin/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administration of SAN and NAS arrays such as EMC VMAX 20,40k, RecoverPoint and NetApp FAS 3240,3270, 2030, HP EVA and Virtualized Product EMC VPLEX Metro
• Involved in migration from VMAX 20K to VMAX 40 K for ESX hosts, Windows and AIX servers through VPLEX
• Configured new VMAX 40K that includes zoning, creating masking views for Management servers and Unisphere cluster
• Configured Consistency groups on vplex, created Distributed devices at both sides and adding distrusted devices to Consistency groups
• Hands on Experience/Knowledge on VPLEX CLI, VPLEX GEO, VPLEX Witness, Distributed Consistency group and Data Migration
• Performed Virtual Provisioning by created thin devices, binding them to thin pool, adding to storage groups and associating storage group to FAST Policies. Created initiator, port and storage groups and adding them to respective masking views
• Performed and implemented SRDF for VMAX 20 K, 40K at local datacenter to VMAX 20K at DR site by creating dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups.
• Provisioned storage through VPLEX to Windows and ESX server by claiming backend storage LUNs, creating extends, devices, Virtual volumes and finally adding them to Storage view
• Created Data Mobility jobs to migrate extents from VMAX 20K to VMAX 40k using Unisphere for VPLEX
• Migrated Storage from HP EVA to VNX 5700 using SAN Copy on Unisphere for VNX
• Created and configured storage groups, created LUNs, registered initiators, added LUNs and initiators to Storage groups using Unisphere for VNX
• Replicated VNX blocked data between VNXs at two datacenter using RecoverPoint, created consistency group, configured journal volumes and RecoverPoint sessions
• Involved in configuration and setting up of RPA using deployment manager
• Created volumes, qtree, implementing different mode of security style on qtrees, providing user/group level permissions for CIF shares, creating mount points and exporting the file system using NFS.
• Provisioned FC LUNs on NetApp by creating volumes, LUNs on Volumes, igroup, adding initiators to igroup and mapping the volume to igroup
• Involved in migration of Vfiler from one NetApp filer to another NetApp filer
• Experience in Virtualizing RedHat servers using vSphere 4.1/5.0/5.1 and managed ESXi servers using vCenter and also worked with ESXi Clusters
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, Implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using VMotion, sVMotion
• System monitoring and security. Wrote various shell scripts to monitor system services and trigger email and pager notifications
• Reclaimed backed all the storage after migration that involved deleting views, groups, unbinding tdevs from thin pool, dissolving metas, deleting devices, deletepair on SRDF and deleting R2 devices
• Analyzed the performance of Devices, FA ports and Host IOPS using Unisphere for VMAX and moved host to new masking views or to new FA ports
• Configured new zones for migration that involved creating zones on both fabrics, adding to active Zoneset and finally activating Active Zoneset using CLI and Fabric Manager
• Removed all zones from active Zoneset after migration and deleted all the old zones on all Fabrics using Cisco CLI
• Reported all the thin devices in all storage groups that are provisioned to host but not used.
• Deleted unused devices, thereby bring down oversubscription rate by 150TB
• Resolved SAN and NAS related issues on EMC arrays and NetApp Filers and worked on Remedy Tickets
• Provisioned storage from Hitachi USP V to different physical and virtual hosts using Hitachi Command Suite
• Hands on experience in implementing Hitachi Universal Replicator in USPV/VM and VSP storages across the Datacenters for Open and z/OS systems
• Experience using maintenance mode of SVP in VSP, USPV/VM storages
• Hands on experience in configuration and maintenance of Dynamic Provision volumes
• Perform virtualization using Universal Volume Manager. Execute Data Migration using Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager..
• Based on Performance Tuning analysis, migrated data between Tiers using Hitachi TSM.
• Design and Implement data migration for servers from EMC vmax to HDS using Hitachi UVM/dVM.
• Perform virtualization using Universal Volume Manager. Execute Data Migration using Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager

Confidential, Austin, TX.

Sr.Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed storage Environment consists of EMC VMAX, Clariion, DMX, VPLEX, NetApp FAS and Cisco MDS switches
• Implemented VPLEX storage migration from the CLARiiON and DMX to VNX and VMAX along with the zoning on Cisco Switch.
• Day - to-day provisioning of the storage from the VNX and VMAX to the VPLEX and VPLEX to different host using Unisphere for VPLEX
• Extensively used Open Replicator to migrate storage from CLARiiON and DMX to VNX/VMAX and completely decommissioned the source storage arrays. For Open replicator, created cold pull sessions to migrate devices by scripting the whole process for efficiency.
• Implemented virtual provisioning for Storage allocation on VMAX that included creating initiator groups, port groups, storage groups and masking views using solution enabler Symcli
• Implemented SRDF from DMX4 to VMAX 20K by creation of dynamic RA groups, dynamic RDF pairs and device groups and adding to crontab scheduler for incremental replication
• Administered the storage and server in production environments. Created Meta LUNs by expanding base LUN’s using striping and concatenation
• Involved in configuring Symmetrix device groups for Time Finder BCV operations using SYMCLI.
• Provisioned storage from Confidential XIV Gen 3 to different physical and virtual host using XIV GUI and monitor and troubleshoot performance issues using XIV TOP
• Installation and Administration of NetApp Storage. Creation of Aggregates, volumes and mapping of LUNs to Windows & UNIX hosts.
• Performed storage provisioning on xtremIO using xtremeIO storage management application to DAAs and vDI environment.
• Hands on experience with HP 3par, created CPG, virtual devices and exported to different windows and unix host.
• Configure volumes for CIFS and NFS in NetApp NAS environment
• Configure Snapshot schedule for volumes or aggregates on NetApp Filers.
• Choose the right RAID level for high performance and high availability on NetApp Filers.
• Configured VIFs and VLANS in NetApp Environment.
• Monitoring and forwarding Syslog messages on NetApp Filers.
• Refreshed data using Snap Mirror whenever needed using snap mirror and snap shots
• Performed data replication between the datacenters using the SRDF. Performed daily health checks and tested restore from R2 to R1 after establishing SRDF links
• Administration of Fiber channel switches by creating zones and fabric configurations. Configured zoning on FC Switches (Cisco) using the Fabric Manager, Device Manager
• Monitoring, Capacity planning, performance tuning and maintaining Symmetrix, CLARiiON’s using Control Center (ECC), Performance Manager, Storage Scope
• Installing and troubleshooting Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s to provide SAN access for Host integration.
• Performed various methods of data replication on CLARiiON using Mirror View/A.
• Installed, configured tested SAN copy to migrate data from CLARiiON to HP EVA .
• UsedEMC Replication Manager for managing point-in-time replication technologies which included TimeFinder (clone/snap/mirror), SnapView, and SAN Copy.
• Installed and configured the EMC Control Center (ECC) and SMC to monitor and manage hosts, EMC Clariion and Symmetrix, Brocade and Cisco switches.
• Experienced working on virtual machnies, migrated VM and storage using vmotion and storage vmotion.
• Troubleshooting issues regarding Emulex and Qlogic HBA’s.
• Configured EMC Control Center for end to end Administration and Management of SAN environment.
• Involved in generating reports for storage allocation, usage and configuration details using EMC Storage Scope.
• Installed and configured VMware vSphere in shared storage environment like, Fibre Channel iSCSI, NFS and CIFS.
• Installation, configuration and administration of EMC NetWorker NetBackup on hosts. Responsible for deploying automated Backup and Restoration using NMC 7.6.
• Performed virtualization procedures using VMware on the client side systems.

Confidential, Cary, NC

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Explored SAN and NAS vendors NETAPP, EMC during the evaluation phase. Managed existing EMC CX700 and NETAPP FAS 3000/3100/3200 Filers and involved with purchase of newer EMC CX4-480C Array with EMC RecoverPoint for Disaster recovery for migrating existing SQL and Oracle server onto Fiber channel Storage Area Network (SAN).
• In addition implemented VMware Site Recovery manager with SNAPMIRROR for ESX servers existing on new NETAPP FAS3140 Filers using iSCSI..
• Installed and Uninstalled NetApp DataFabric Manager on the different systems.
• Refreshed data using SnapMirror, SnapShot whenever needed.
• Configured Network Appliance SnapVault software for regular backup data stored on NetApp or any other storage platform to Network Appliance enterprise storage and NearStore systems, providing a centralized disk-based backup solution for heterogeneous storage environments.
• Created LUNs and Volumes across a large pool of disks and one or more RAID groups using FlexVol.
• Performed automatic, incremental data replication between systems: synchronous or asynchronous using SnapMirror.
• Deployed Time Finder Business Continuity Solutions by allocating BCV devices, Clones and Snapshots as per the business needs on DMX and Clariion.
• Created Aggregates, Volumes (Traditional, FlexVol and FlexClone), Qtrees and Quotas in NetApp FAS 3040 and FAS 3020 using Filerview.
• Troubleshoot NFS, SAN and CIFS issues on NetApp filers and fine tune the filers for optimal performance.
• Monitor, replace, and reconfigure disk drives, FC HBAs (Host Bus Adapters), Compact Flash Card, tape drive/libraries.
• Created Aggregates, volumes (FlexVol), qtrees and Quotas on NetApp Filers. Involved in creating CIFS shares, NFS exports.
• Configuring data storage
• Involved in migration of Vfiler from one NetApp filer to another NetApp filer using CLI and Filer View.
• Configured new zones for migration that involved creating new zones on both fabrics, adding to active cfg and finally enabling active cfg using Brocade CLI
• Involved in replacing faulty SFPs, ran sfpshow command to list faulty one and replaced them with new SFPs.
• Upgraded firmware on all Brocade switches from V7.1 to V7.2 using Brocade webtools
• Provisioned storage to customers using both ISCSI and Fiber channel provisioning.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

Sr. Storage Ops Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed the SAN Environment consisting of VMAX, CLARiiON CX 4-80, 3-80, Brocade 5300 directors using SYMCLI, SMC and Unisphere.
• Designing an additional space and carving up the space on the array.
• Expanded LUNs and allocated Storage to Windows and VMware ESX.
• Created Datastores from vSphere
• Implemented Thin Provisioning from VMAX array to hosts by creating Data devices, Thin devices, Thin Pool, binding Thin devices to Pool and masking the Thin devices to the host,
• Administered and managed the SAN Environment consisting of VMAX, DMX 4, 3, 3000/1000, CLARiiON CX 4-80, 3-80, Cisco MDS 9513/9509 directors using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center.
• Responsible for storage Migrations from DMX 3 and Symmetrix 1000/3000 to DMX 4 and VMAX using Open Replicator (Cold Pull) and SRDF and successfully migrated the data and decommissioned the old arrays. Also used Open Migrator (Host based replication software) to migrate the data online for some of the critical servers which require less downtime.
• Responsibilities included weekly storage capacity reporting, regular meeting with the system administrators and DBA's in scheduling the down time for migration and also monitored the performance of the storage ports on the Remote side during migration process.
• Implemented DR solutions after the migration using SRDF and successful tested them for business divisions.
• Worked with remediation of the servers, which migrated from old arrays to the new arrays.
• Responsible for storage allocation using ECC, Symcli, Navisphere, Unisphere and SMC for the storage environment.
• Configured and Maintained the San environment using Brocade switch and created zones and added to zone sets.
• Successfully installed Symmetrix Management Console (SMC), Symmetrix Performance Analyzer (SPA) and configured VMAX for the thin provisioning.
• Also implemented FAST V2 by creating Storage Groups and FAST V2 policies for different Storage types.
• Tested this in the lab environment which at later stage rolled into production.
• Worked with VNX in the lab.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

SAN administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of more than 20 servers & 250 Workstations. Servers included are FTP server, SQL server, IIS server, Exchange Server, Domain server, Print server, VPN server, Linux server, VMware ESX server .
• Installing and administrating of EMC Storage arrays CX 500/600.
• Performed patch management and installing third party software.
• Installed and configured TSM server and installed TSM agents in most of the workstations.
• Created and modify backup policy creation and Restore Operations.
• Monitored and troubleshooting all the Net backup jobs from the Activity monitor.
• Created RAID (RAID 0, 1, 5) and RAID groups on EMC storage arrays.
• Performed addition of new storage space to servers, increasing the existing storage space and maintaining the Fabric’s.
• Adding new storage includes creation of new LUN’s, storage groups, binding LUN’s and making the storage volume available to the server’s by zoning the Fabric.
• Created and configured volumes using Solaris volume manager (SVM) and VERITAS volume manager (VxVm).
• Performed Performance monitoring, file system management and performed security audit.
• Maintenance of Data Storage devices for Backup & Data Collection like Confidential 3590/3480/3490 , Fijitsu 3480.
• Prepared Business continuity and DR Process for the company.
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of DNS, DHCP, RIS, Active Directory.
• Given Remote support for managing and troubleshooting server using Putty, Telnet, Remote desktop, VNC.
• Created documents for Backup procedures, Schedules, Failures and plan for improvement of backup strategies.